Friday, December 13, 2024

Voters Not Idiots

Numbers guy Nate Silver has been authoring a lot of pithy, on-target quotes lately. Check out this one.

The implicit message of a lot (of) the recent discourse among Democrats is "How can we get these idiots to vote for us?" and the answer may be that the first step is to understand that they're not idiots.

Democrats only love ya if you are a bona fide, intersectional victim. Since most of us aren't victims, they end up preaching to a smallish choir while ignoring us in the congregation. Trump loves us "normies," and we respond appreciatively to his common sense approach.